User:鳥星雨

鳥星雨
	; Himeko & Mairu
Full name	鳥星雨
Country	South Korea
Club	Northwestern University Riichi Mahjong
ID	鳥星雨

Northwestern University Riichi Mahjong admin. For all NURM inquiries, please contact me. 日本語/한국어 OK.

Contact Information

E-mail: ancientsc@gmail.com
Messenger: m.me/ancientsc
LINE: toriseiu
Discord: 鳥星雨#5049

Biography

鳥星雨 (ちょうせいう or とりせいう) is an amateur Riichi Mahjong player who currently administers the Northwestern University Riichi Mahjong (NURM) club, based in Evanston, IL, USA. He founded the club in April 2018, and continues to play a large role in the management of the club, despite his graduation and overseas employment. He is an alumnus of Northwestern University and Waseda University, and he currently attends Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea.

鳥星雨 plays as 鳥星雨 on Tenhou, where he shares a healthy rivalry with his fellow clubmate and close friend YuukiTheFlash. He is also a former regular club member at Chicago Area Mahjong and Waseda Mahjong Club. He still often plays on Tenhou with members from his former clubs, and regularly runs Tenhou online tournaments within the club's online sphere.

Outside of mahjong, 鳥星雨 is avid fan of the 東方Project series of games, and the 同人 arrangements of its music.

Tenhou.net Aliases

Name	Rank	Points	Rating	Games	Avg Rank	Avg Score	Updated
鳥星雨	三段	600/1200	R1743	181	2.48	-0.40	2018/11/04

Playstyle

鳥星雨 is a completely digital player, playing towards maximizing expected values. His playstyle is rather slow and conservative. He tends not to call as often as other players, as he prefers the flexibility and added value of a closed hand. He would say his specialty is defensive play; the majority of the points he loses result from dealing in post-riichi.

鳥星雨 likes to watch his favorite professional players and model his playstyle off of them. His favorite pros include 魚谷佑美 (Uotani Yuumi), 二階戸亜紀 (Nikaido Aki), 茅森早香 (Kayamori Sayaka), and 近藤誠一 (Kondou Seiichi). In his free time, he looks at videos of professional play, and tries to analyze what they are doing better than him. In particular, he is quite excited about the start of Mリーグ, and you can probably guess what his favorite team is.

Finally, 鳥星雨 firmly opposes playing with beginner players who do not know proper defensive strategies. Games with one or more of these beginner players disproportionately overvalue aggressive play, which 鳥星雨 finds incredibly boring after a while. Instead, 鳥星雨 is often times very happy to play open hand games with these players to teach them proper defensive strategy so that they can play better in real games.

Yakuman Count

Real Tiles

Date	Yakuman	Location	Notes	Source
2018/07/03	Kokushi Musou 国士無双	Waseda Mahjong Club 早稲田麻雀部	Ron: Kokushi scored by houtei ron on a jigoku Hatsu. With a haipai of 8 unique terminal/honor tiles, the initial attempt was a Chanta, but gradually a yakuman became a possibility. Second place kamicha was hit for 32k.	[1]